Your organization, and indeed your profession, feature the word “geophysics.” My area of specialty features a somewhat related word “geopolitics.” I suggest that, of the two, geopolitics is a much simpler enterprise. It really means nothing more complicated than looking at a map or globe and thinking about the political relationships of the nations that are depicted there — with an eye, of course, to their geographical relationships as well.

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